Is there anything in Sharia like this new policy in Arizona-- in a
supposedly "Christian" nation? All visitors to prisoners in state
prisons will have to pay a $25 fee each visit.
This sounds familiar. Sounds like something in a Dickens's novel.
Sounds like something from an era of heartless soul-crushing cruelty.
My my my my Sharia!
David Brooks, an otherwise sensible conservative, really thinks Rick Perry
has a serious shot at winning the next presidential election. Perry is
opposed to Social Security, thinks Franklin Roosevelt ruined the country,
ridicules science, gives state jobs to any of his major contributors who
want one, and loves macho posturing and quips. His solution to the
hardship caused ranchers and farmers by the drought over Texas this year: a
prayer meeting.
I suspect Perry will crumble once he encounters the relentless scrutiny of
the media given a national campaign. At this stage-- and it's early--
I think Romney actually has a better chance of being the nominee, and a
better chance of beating Obama.
Shariah is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and
in the world as we know it.” Newt Gingrich, quoted in NY Times, 2011-09-01
One has to grant the possibility that one day Newt Gingrich will be
telling a rapt television audience, maybe on Jon Stewart, that he alone
warned America about danger; he alone saw it coming. And he was
mocked.
Tennessee recently pass a law making it a felony to follow Sharia law.
Does that make sense on any level at all? Let's say a man divorces his
wife according to Sharia law. Will the police arrest him and force him
to remarry her, and then go to court and get a regular old Christian or
secular humanist divorce? It's mind-blowing.
So, let's get on with the mockery. Somehow, 300 million Americans
will soon be living under laws that require amputations and veils and
polygamy. Well, at least they might require a mahr, which is a lump
sum payment due to the wife when the husband dies or divorces her.
According to Abed Awad of Rugers University, Sharia law is also:
a methodology through which a jurist engages the religious texts to
ascertain divine will.
So I have a really simple solution to the threat of Sharia Law. Let's have all the states
pass laws that make it illegal to appeal to religious doctrines or texts in
support of any legal or legislative proceeding. How about that?
But wait--- didn't Newt Gingrich also just
say something about it being a bad thing that God was being driven out
of public life? Sounds like he doesn't really mind religious bigotry
intolerance-- he just wants to make sure that he's the one carrying the
torch.
And aren't both Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann campaigning on the idea
of bringing religion back into the White House? They don't seem shy
about it either. Of course, that's the Christian religion, so that
would not be intolerant or bigoted, because it is the right religion.
